Xchroot v2.7.4 implements some important bugfixes towards v2.7. Due to an apparent regression in sudo, xchroot as user appears to have been temporarily broken. At first I thought it was one of the configuration issues merely pertinent to my own system like the ssh user being deleted from /etc/passwd or some removed execution right of a shared library or /etc/init.d file (I did already tell whom to thank.). However as it seems this was in deed a regression of sudo. Can now be fixed by executing xchroot inst-root-sudo. The new and buggy mirrtmp behaviour of v2.7 has been temporarily undone defaulting to mntmp as before. Mounting of /etc/resolv.conf may be needed for internet access, mounting /boot/efi for installing the bootloader and initctl may help for systemctl suspend. new feature: minimal chroots featuring only a busybox: see 'how to create a chroot', last example.
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xchroot v2.7 starts an own dbus session for the target user by default as many applications expect and as desktop environments like Xfce, Gnome or KDE require. Desktop file creation has been improved and is also used for exporting X-sessions like KDE or Gnome out of a chroot. Chroot escapes now do also work if an intermediately run program has closed the file descriptors so that you can also use it for desktop sessions. Another new feature is that xchroot can now also be used for merely switching the user with maintained X-access where no chroot is performed. This may be useful if you want to run your favourite browser cleanly separated with two different bookmark/history/other settings at the same time. The documentation about audio and user support as well as the intro has also been updated. /tmp mirroring has been made more secure by only exporting /tmp/.X11-unix by default. The old, possibly more compatible behaviour can be achieved with --on mirrtmp or permanently by adding mirrtmp to the MNTON variable definition at the beginning of the xchroot script. If multiple chroots to the same root and user occur, then the XAUTH-cookies for all chroots will now be merged into one file.
webstats for multiple domains:domain:port is now viewed for the page directory and the visits unless you specify --nodom, usually in gray color unless -C is given. You can query with --domain elstel for a pattern or with --domain ^elstel.org$ only for the .org domain. logrotate has been updated and it now runs also without parameters; help screen, download file recognition (.bz2,.gz,.xz,.tar) and search engine recognition have also been updated (for ecosia,startpage,metager,crawlson,qwant)
Enhance your TI-82 pocket calculator with programs for solving linear equations, calculating the inverse of a matrix, computing the greatest common divider, the smallest common multiple, prime factorization, cross product, unit vectors and the truth table of a boolean function. Have fun with a peacock drawn by polar coordinata.
It is a long way since xchroot v2.5.3. Last year I had to stop development because the secret services did not allow me to continue. I could assign a variable on one line and it did not have the assigned value on the next line - and that offline. Luckily today I did not have any problems with xchroot. However developing a̅tea remains problematic and at least partially inhibited. Far worse there is no way for me to continue the development of my DualSat SAT-solver. Publishing the normal news messages here at the rss newsletter has also become increasingly difficult. Meanwhile I need to write the vast majority of messages offline. A few have been written on paper and with paperback dictionaries only. Nonetheless it is a huge alleviation to view suggestions of translate.google.com for Spanish and Portuguese which I could mostly still do with my tablet. Short before the COP26 the Firefox, Google Chrome and Falkon browsers have been disabled on my online machine in order to threaten me. I am currently using Epiphany and Midori. I had already feared that the overwhelming majority of the web would remain unreachable for me as I initially did not know any alternative graphical browser with Javascript.
new features: escape from a chroot environment into the original root if not disabled, better desktop shortcut creation for chroot programs, many many bugfixes including mount mirroring: Since v2.5 it can automatically mount directories f.i. under /media directly into the chroot. View the first lines of the xchroot executable with less or a text editor to see the full changelog.
